# Advice for Good Little Girls > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Advice_for_Good_Little_Girls > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Advice_for_Good_Little_Girls.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_for_Good_Little_Girls > Source revision: 1324392291 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Advice for Good Little Girls Author Mark Twain Illustrator Vladimir Radunsky Language English Publisher Enchanted Lion Books Publication date 2013-04-02 ISBN 9781592701292 Short story by Mark Twain "**Advice for Good Little Girls**" is a humorous [essay](/source/Essay) by [Mark Twain](/source/Mark_Twain), first published in 1865, which lists satirical pieces of advice for how young girls should behave. *The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain* called it an early precursor to Twain's satirical youth novels *[Tom Sawyer](/source/Tom_Sawyer)* and *[Huckleberry Finn](/source/Huckleberry_Finn)*.[1] ## Background "Advice for Good Little Girls" first appeared in the *California Youth's Companion* in 1865, as a [companion piece](/source/Companion_piece) to a similar but longer essay, "Advice for Good Little Boys." The essay was reprinted in *The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches* (1867),[2] and was later included in Twain's *[The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories](/source/The_%2430%2C000_Bequest_and_Other_Stories)* (1906), under the title "Advice to Little Girls". As a satirical retort to the [didactic](/source/Didactic) child-rearing literature common at the time, Twain lists subversive, facetious pieces of advice for girls, often encouraging mischievous behavior.[1] These include "You ought never to 'sass' old people unless they 'sass' you first" and "You ought never to take your little brother's '[chewing-gum](/source/Chewing_gum)' away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone." The essay was republished as a picture book by Enchanted Lion Press in 2013, under the title "Advice to Little Girls", with illustrations by [Vladimir Radunsky](/source/Vladimir_Radunsky). The re-release was praised by outlets including *[NPR](/source/NPR)*[3] and the *Los Angeles Times*, which called it "as essential today as it was a century-and-a-half ago."[4] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-routledge_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-routledge_1-1) LeMaster, J. R.; Wilson, James D., eds. (December 6, 2012). [*The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain*](https://books.google.com/books?id=jFlQweCtoUUC). Taylor & Francis. pp. 15–16. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781135881351](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781135881351). Retrieved March 27, 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-california_2-0)** Branch, Edgar Marquess; Smith, Harriet E.; Hirst, Robert, eds. (July 27, 1981). *Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 2*. University of California Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780520906778](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780520906778). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-npr_3-0)** Hersher, Becky. ["NPR's Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2013's Great Reads"](https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2013/#/book/advice-to-little-girls). *NPR*. Retrieved March 27, 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-lulin_4-0)** Lulin, David L. (March 11, 2013). ["Mark Twain's 'Advice to Little Girls'"](https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2013-mar-11-la-et-jc-mark-twains-advice-to-little-girls-20130311-story.html). *Los Angeles Times*. Retrieved March 27, 2023. ## External links - [Advice to Little Girls](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:1906._The_$30,000_Bequest,_and_Other_Stories.djvu&page=319) on Wikimedia Commons - *["Advice to Little Girls" included in The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories](https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/142)* at [Project Gutenberg](/source/Project_Gutenberg) - [*Advice to Little Girls*](https://librivox.org/search?title=Advice+to+Little+Girls&author=Twain&reader=&keywords=&genre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_page=1&search_form=advanced) public domain audiobook at [LibriVox](/source/LibriVox) v t e Mark Twain Bibliography Novels The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Prince and the Pauper Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The American Claimant Tom Sawyer Abroad Pudd'nhead Wilson Tom Sawyer, Detective Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc A Double Barrelled Detective Story A Horse's Tale The Mysterious Stranger Hellfire Hotchkiss Short stories "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" "Cannibalism in the Cars" "A Literary Nightmare" "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" 1601 "The Stolen White Elephant" "Luck" "The Million Pound Bank Note" "A Double Barrelled Detective Story" "Those Extraordinary Twins" "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" "A Dog's Tale" "Extracts from Adam's Diary" "The War Prayer" "Eve's Diary" "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" "My Platonic Sweetheart" "Advice for Good Little Girls" Collections Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance Sketches New and Old Mark Twain's Library of Humor Merry Tales The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories Plays Is He Dead? Essays "The Awful German Language" "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" "Advice to Youth" How to Tell a Story and Other Essays "Concerning the Jews" "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany" "What Is Man?" "The United States of Lyncherdom" "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" Letters from the Earth Nonfiction Territorial Enterprise letters Letters from Hawaii The Innocents Abroad Roughing It Old Times on the Mississippi A Tramp Abroad Life on the Mississippi Following the Equator Is Shakespeare Dead? Autobiography of Mark Twain (Chapters from My Autobiography) King Leopold's Soliloquy The Private History of a Campaign That Failed Christian Science Speeches "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism" "Votes for Women" Places and events Family cabin Birthplace State Historic Site State Park Boyhood home and museum Mark Twain Cave Mark Twain in Nevada Territorial Enterprise Sagebrush School Quarry Farm Mark Twain House Stormfield Twain–Ament indemnities controversy Popular culture Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Mark Twain Readers Award Mark Twain Tonight! The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985) Mark Twain (2001 documentary) Twain and Shaw Do Lunch (2011 play) Mark Twain: The Musical Family Olivia Langdon Clemens (wife) Susy Clemens (daughter) Clara Clemens (daughter) Jean Clemens (daughter) John M. Clemens (father) Jane Lampton Clemens (mother) Orion Clemens (brother) Related Jap Herron Center For Mark Twain Studies Mark Twain (book) Mark Twain National Forest Mark Twain Tree National Tom Sawyer Days --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Advice for Good Little Girls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_for_Good_Little_Girls) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_for_Good_Little_Girls?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.